※ Explanation

Kanji table containing all Kanji that are either Unicode IRG IICore containing J, or Unicode Unihan Core 2020 containing J. This includes all Kyōiku, Jōyō and Jinmeiyō Kanji as of 2025.

The table is ordered by Grade, then by JIS level, then by JIS Ku-ten code (Kanji outside JIS follow afterwards inside that final ordering level, ordered by Unicode code point).

Column 級/Kyu indicates the grade of the Kanji. The numeric grades (1-10) are according to the EDRDG KANJIDIC2 data.

• Grades 1-6 are the Kyōiku Kanji of that grade level (Kyōiku Kanji). They are colored red.
• Gade 8 are the remaining Jōyō Kanji. They are colored blue.
• Grade 9 are the Jinmeiyō Kanji that are not variants of any Jōyō Kanji, and grade 10 the remaining Jinmeiyō Kanji. They are colored purple.
• Uppercase H are the remaining Kanji that are also in JIS X 0208 (JIS level 1 or 2) and additionally are both in the Unihan Core 2020 and the IICore (containing J) and also having priority indicator A in the latter. These should constitute the more commmon Hyougai Kanji. They are colored black (not colored?).
• Finally, lowercase h are the remaining included Hyougai Kanji, this should constitute less common but still potentially relevant Hyougai Kanji. They are colored "lightgrey".

The 準/Jun column descibes the JIS Level of the Kanji which is usually 1-4, with Levels 1-2 according to JIS X 0208, level 3-4 according to JIS X 0213. Kanji contained only in JIS X 0213 level 3-4 but not JIS X 0212 have an asterisk * after the level. Level 0 indicates Kanji contained in JIS X 208 but outside Kanji rows. Level 5 would indicate Kanji only in JIS X 0212, Level 6 indicates Kanji not in any of these JIS standards but in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Level 7 would indicate Kanji beyond these.

The C/Core column contains the priority in IICore. It is uppercase if has the J source there, and lowercase for any other Kanji in IICore, or a dash if it's not in IICore. If the Kanji is not in Unihan Core 2020, there is an asterisk after the IICore priority.

Colum Vars/Variants contains variants of the Kanji listed in either the Unicode Unihan database or the EDRDG KANJIDIC2 data. The Kanji (or other Han character) is listed first and then any single-letter variant indicators indicating the kind or source of the variant. Hover with the mouse over the indidator letter for more information. Note that the Unicode data seems to be focused more on Chinese than Japanese. The variant Kanji are colored according to their Grade level (see above). If a Kanji/Han character is not included in the table at all, it is faded in a lighter shade of grey than the lowercase h-graded Kanji.

• j, 2, 3, u: Variant listed in KANJIDIC2 as JIS X 0208, JIS X 0212, JIS X 0213 or Unicode variant respectively. This data is a bit messy, e.g. multiple redundant variant codes may be present or a variant that is actually in JIS X 0208 may be listed only as Unicode variant. The kind of relation is also not clearly defined but most often it is a quite close variant such as Shinjitai/Kyūjitai or another style variant.
• n: Variant listed in KANJIDIC2 as Nelson dictionary variant. Often these are related characters that share some common meaning and reading but are not interchangeable (or at least exchanging them changes the nuance).
• z: Variant listed in Unicode as kZVariant ("z-variant"), i.e. a purely stylistic variant with identical meaning.
• C: A Kajji for which this indicator appears is not considered a proper (unified) Han character by Unicode but merely a CJK compatibility character. The indicated variant is the "proper" character. This represents the Unicode kCompatibilityVariant property.
• J: This variant indicator only appears for Jinmeiyō Kanji that the Japanese authorities consider (less standard) variants and the variant with the J indicator is the "more proper" one. In particular, by definition, all "grade 10" Jinmeiyō will have such a variant and it will be a Jōyō kanji. The data stems from the Unicode property kJinmeiyoKanji. For "grade 9" Jinmeiyō, it sometimes states the opposite of Unicode's opinion of of what the proper character should be as indicated by the C/kCompatibilityVariant variant.
• Ĵ: This variant indicator only appears rarely for Hyōgai Kanji in JIS X 0208 (i.e. JIS level 1 or 2) that are considered acceptable variants of Jōyō kanji which are outside JIS X 0208. The data stems from the Unicode kJoyoKanji property.
• y, m: Variant listed in Unicode as kSemanticVariant (y) or kSpecializedSemanticVariant (m). Note that these can be totally wrong for Japanese usage as the Unicode data seems to be more Chinese-focused.
• t, s: Unicode kTraditionalVariant and kSimplifiedVariant. This is mostly not useful for Japanese usage as it relates to Chinese.
• x: Unicode kSpoofingVariant. Looks (probably) deceptively similar but might be completely unrelated in meaning.
• ẋ: Unicode confusable. Looks deceptively similar but might be completely unrelated in meaning. This does not include all confusables but only single-codepoint Han characters, excluding any compatibility variants that are not in KANJIDIC 2.

Column 同部/Dōbu has Kanji that consist of approximately the same components (data from kanjivg.tagaini.net/) and colunm Comps contains the top-level component decomposition this is based on.

Kanji Table